Mission of the function

GBS Payroll Officer will provide consulting and execution of Compensation and Benefits related to services for internal customers according to company regulations and guidelines and customer relations with stake holders

Contacts - Internal

All Siemens Employees, managements, contractors, HR Colleagues for the cluster

Contacts - External

Suppliers and Stake Holders

What are the responsibilities of the Role?

Responsibility: Maintain, Support and control all payroll input on a monthly basis for processing payroll for South Africa and branch payrolls

Processes:  Support and provide dedicated GBS H2Rservices from the global GBS H2R product catalogue within the own area of responsibility with high efficiency based on individual task descriptions

Monthly checking and signing-off of Payroll related input (PY)

Maintenance of repository system (Constellation)

Attend to payroll queries and keep in communication with customers

Reconciliation of month end activities e.g. Preparation of JV’s and capturing in PD JV tool

SAP Testing

Effectively identifies problems as they occur and takes appropriate steps to solve them in situations

Contribute to continuous improvement processes in order to improve the quality of service provided and the individual customer experience

Contribute to process or system improvements and drive the implementation of new and updates processes

Support and perform other assigned duties as required

Technologies

HR Systems (SAP HR) and MS Office (Excel, Outlook, Work)

Legislation (BCEA, tax, Main Agreement)

Ensures compliance to the relevant legislation's within the company business area

Siemens processes, policies and procedures

Understands Siemens policies and processes in order to provide a payroll service to the business

Attention to detail

Carefully monitors the accuracy of own and others work and presents accurate information, identifies deviation from standard and takes corrective action

Communication skills

Communicates the message verbally and in writing to a range of internal and external contact, using the language and terminology which will be most readily understood

Numeracy

Uses numerical information in order to draw conclusions and make recommendations

Methods

Expert-level knowledge of policies and procedures, understanding of relevant parts of the labour code as well as expert-level knowledge of HR Business processes (employee life cycle)

What do I need to Qualify?

Demonstrates basic knowledge of specialty area

Typically 3-5 years of successful experience in a payroll related field and successful demonstration of Key Responsibilities and Knowledge as presented above

Min education: Completed HR Diploma or Studying towards HR qualification

Intercultural 

Primarily intra-organizational contacts and limited external contacts